Cameron Mitchell Restaurants is getting back into the steakhouse business.

Columbus restaurant entrepreneur Cameron Mitchell, who sold his Mitchell’s Steakhouse and
Cameron’s Steakhouse restaurants, among others, in early 2008, plans to open a steakhouse at 1307
Grandview Ave.

The neighborhood steakhouse is scheduled to open in late 2015 in space currently occupied by
Panera Bread, said spokeswoman Heather Leonard.

Mitchell sold his steakhouse chains, as well as his Mitchell’s Fish Market and Columbus Fish
Market chains, to Ruth’s Chris Steak House for $94 million just as the economy slid into recession.
Most full-service restaurants have suffered ever since.

As the economy recovers, sales at premium steak restaurants are expected to grow 2.8 percent
annually through 2018, according to market research firm IBISWorld. That compares with 0.4 percent
growth each year from 2008 through 2013.

Mitchell previously announced plans for an “upscale casual steakhouse” in Gahanna, called the
Barn at Rocky Fork Creek.

It is expected to open in late summer with a “much broader menu” than the Grandview Avenue
steakhouse, Leonard said. Hiring for the Gahanna restaurant is set to begin in May, she said.

Mitchell’s restaurant company has a lot more on its plate:

• Cameron’s American Bistro, at 2185 W. Dublin-Granville Rd., is expected to reopen at 5 p.m. on
Monday after an extensive renovation.

• The first of two Hudson 29 Food + Drink polished casual grills is expected to open this
spring at the Lane development in Upper Arlington. Hiring for that location will begin on Monday,
with applications being accepted at Homewood Suites, 1576 W. Lane Ave., Leonard said. A second
Hudson 29 location is expected to be opened next year in the Market & Main development in New
Albany.

• In April, the Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern, in which Mitchell is a partner, is planning
to open its first Florida location, in Naples.

• Mitchell’s Ocean Prime chain of modern American supper clubs plans to open its first
California location in Beverly Hills in late summer.